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When I possessed the keys, read the book and understood the symbols, I was permitted to lift the curtain of the Temple and enter.

— P. D. Ouspensky The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913)

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Generally speaking, the significance of the indirect results may very often be of more importance than the significance of direct ones.

Tertium Organum (1922)

Knowledge must start from some foundation, something must be recognized as known; otherwise we shall be obliged always to define one unknown by means of another.

Tertium Organum (1912)

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

Tertium Organum (1922)

People who think they can control their negative emotions and manifest them when they want to, simply deceive themselves.

The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution (1950)

Existing criminology is insufficient to isolate barbarism.

A New Model of the Universe (1932)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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